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Woodstock 50 Canceled By Its Investors

The Dentsu Aegis Network, which had been funding the ambitious, three-day 50th anniversary music festival with headliners including Jay-Z and Santana, says that the August event will not happen.
Jay-Z, performing at the Something in the Water festival in Virginia Beach, V.A. on Saturday. The rapper was one of the many artists that had been scheduled to perform at Woodstock 50.

Woodstock 50, a wide-ranging festival that had hoped to bring the spirit of 1969 to a new generation this August, has been canceled. Tim O'Hearn, the administrator for Schuyler County, New York, where the event was to take place, confirmed the cancellation to NPR; he said he had been

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